"Comfort Food Video Games"

[EscapedMentalPatientParticipant 1489]

FrankOne wrote:

M.U.L.E. from Electronic Arts, circa 1982, by Dan Bunten/Ozark Softscape. It was a fantastic 4-player experience on an Atari 800, long before multiplayer games took off with the internet.

I’m really showing my age here. I was only 12 when it came out though. I kept playing games ’till Playstation I.

I loved Final Fantasy VII. I occasionally go to a local arcade to play the coin-op games of my youth without an emulator: Galaga, Centipede, Ms. Pacman, and Dig Dug. I really don’t play modern games but may take it up again someday.

Roydal: I like the chess link and will give that a try. I used to play as a kid but was never great.

Arcades really were great. Sort of the “Library of the Lost” for me. I’d spend quite a lot of time at the library in winter, so as not to be at home. And then………..the Arcade. I used to think the guy who gave out the quarters was some form of God.

[EscapedMentalPatientParticipant 1489]

chir wrote:

planetside 2. Nothing like shooting other players or owning a teenager with a shotgun to the skull.

I’ve gotta scheck this out.

Anonymous wrote:

For me it’s Gears of War…

Another gooder.

MKB wrote:

I play warthunder and team fortress 2. I prefer war thunder to world of tanks, the simulator battles are really fun. The armor mechanic really sets the game apart.

I checked out some screenshots in high res for that war thunder; man that looks like quite the game. must investigate.

The Long Walk wrote:

Dungeon Keeper

Another classic, to be sure.

[BigDParticipant 3024]

PokerTH

Those in the know PokerTH. I even have my own PokerTH server running for family and close friends.

Don't stick your dick into anyone you aren't willing to put up with for eighteen years and nine months.

[PhantomParticipant 3328]

EscapedMentalPatient wrote:

Purely Awesome. I’ve always felt they could do a really good reimagining of this digitally, with more interactive play and such. Such a classic game, that one.

That would be so cool if it were ever done.
I would have to buy it for sure.

[PhantomParticipant 3328]

@roydal,

RoyDal wrote:

This is where you will find me: http://www.chess.com/play/%5B/quote%5D

Cool, thanks for the heads up….I just setup my profile there.
I haven’t played in years, but game anytime to give it a go.

Tribalage is my username there.

[RusskyParticipant 13503]

I downloaded the Dune2 on the tablet when I was trucking and finished it again. Lots of memories came up
Doom games (playing Doom2 right now), Need for Speed series. UFO series, Civilization, Heroes of Might and Magic series, Space Quest, Battle City
DS Poker on my phone

proud carrier of the 'why?' chromosome

[RennieParticipant]

Need for Speed III,IV and V. – Porsche is the best of the three.
I c~~~ punted that c~~~s car into the wall for getting too close.
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Battlefield Vietnam – Alot of people I knew hated the game, but I adored it and still do. The ability to play music from your vehicles that everyone else could hear was and still is revolutionary. Alot of good times with that game.

San Andreas – Every few years I play through the game again. The silly cartoonish nature of it is always fun.

Roller Coaster Tycoon – One of the first games I had on my first computer, used to stay up all night playing it in my younger years. Still put the vandals in jail.

Hitman Blood Money – Good game, but gets very aggravating once you start trying to be creative and the AI ruins the mission by cheating or by hitting the limits of it’s design.

Bully – like Grand Theft Auto but slightly more tame, didn’t expect much of it, but it turned out to be an amazing game. It was very satisfying to slingshot the feminist hags in the girls dorm.

Midtown Madness I/II, – Before GTA III, there was Midtown Madness and Driver. The two games have hundreds of car mods and tracks for them.

[EscapedMentalPatientParticipant 1489]

So many great games listed here! Thanks so much, I had forgotten about more than one of them, that’s for sure. Others, I’ve never tried.

Rennie wrote:

Battlefield Vietnam – Alot of people I knew hated the game, but I adored it and still do. The ability to play music from your vehicles that everyone else could hear was and still is revolutionary. Alot of good times with that game.

Yes, I experienced that too. EA/Dice did Battlefield 1942, with the expansion packs of Secret Weapons, and Road to Rome. I think a lot of people were expecting Battlefield Vietnam to be an entirely different platform, that REALLY blew people away. The private modding community had done such a stellar job of creating mods for BF1942, that I think a pile of disappointment was just waiting in the wings. Some of the mods, such as Desert Combat, and Forgotten Hope were so well done, that I think people found BF Vietnam to be uncreative.

I personally loved it, especially with the helos, and the thick cover. I did dislike the tank dynamics. Most of the tanks used in the conflict were of lighter armor, so they could be heli-lifted into a hot zone etc. Yet you’d sit three feet away in a Patton, fire point blank at a tank FIVE TIMES before it blew up lol.

I had a blast with that game though, and as you mentioned, with the in-vehicle radio thing. I put some of my own tracks in there to listen to and really had fun with that. Sometimes it was comical to see/hear a jeep coming, with the impressive Doppler effect they built in. I was run over more than once by a Willys which was blaring “Fortunate Son”. hahahahahahahahaha

[RusskyParticipant 13503]

Carmageddon II

proud carrier of the 'why?' chromosome

[RennieParticipant]

EscapedMentalPatient wrote:

So many great games listed here! Thanks so much, I had forgotten about more than one of them, that’s for sure. Others, I’ve never tried.

Rennie wrote:

Battlefield Vietnam – Alot of people I knew hated the game, but I adored it and still do. The ability to play music from your vehicles that everyone else could hear was and still is revolutionary. Alot of good times with that game.

Yes, I experienced that too. EA/Dice did Battlefield 1942, with the expansion packs of Secret Weapons, and Road to Rome. I think a lot of people were expecting Battlefield Vietnam to be an entirely different platform, that REALLY blew people away. The private modding community had done such a stellar job of creating mods for BF1942, that I think a pile of disappointment was just waiting in the wings. Some of the mods, such as Desert Combat, and Forgotten Hope were so well done, that I think people found BF Vietnam to be uncreative.
I personally loved it, especially with the helos, and the thick cover. I did dislike the tank dynamics. Most of the tanks used in the conflict were of lighter armor, so they could be heli-lifted into a hot zone etc. Yet you’d sit three feet away in a Patton, fire point blank at a tank FIVE TIMES before it blew up lol.
I had a blast with that game though, and as you mentioned, with the in-vehicle radio thing. I put some of my own tracks in there to listen to and really had fun with that. Sometimes it was comical to see/hear a jeep coming, with the impressive Doppler effect they built in. I was run over more than once by a Willys which was blaring “Fortunate Son”. hahahahahahahahaha

I distinctly remember Huey slicks flying around with ride of the Valkyries blaring overhead and that time I needed to get back to base and found a Hind parked by the flag that the guy was capturing, so I took it and flew away, that guy was so mad, he was like “you’ll never make it!” and almost managed to shoot it down with his gun, but somehow I escaped and got back to base. Then there was the time A guy(human) was sniping the base from the forest so we got a helicopter and I blew him up with a rocket launcher fired out the side door. It’s the moments like those that made the game great.

[CatsPawParticipant 423]

My favorite games:
1. Starcraft Broodwar in multiplayer (best comptetitive game I ever played but the learning curve is so steep that most fall off before making one step).
2 Dark Souls 1 (with DSfix and mousefix). Best dark fantasy I ever played. Hard, atmospheric, great PvP after you learn the ins and outs and tons of fun builds to try.

Those two games I come back to always. Everything else looses its interest after some time.

Other honorable mentions:
Path of Exile, Warframe (especially in the early stages of the game development… now its a grindfest), Mass effect 1 and 2,TrackMania 1 Nations Forever, Fallout 2, witcher 2, Deus Ex 1.

[ShinyParticipant 2307]

Couldn’t get World of Tanks to go on my laptop 🙁 I’ll second the Civs, and BF 1942 (used to LAN with the modern mod – Desert Combat for memory? – man that was superb). Great little military game (Win95 era) was Muzzle Velocity: you could play anyone from an infantryman through all armoured vehicles and anti-aircraft, as well as deploy (but not pilot) anti-tank guns, mortars, heavy artillery, fighters and bombing runs. The campaign map was scalable from strategic positioning down to following shells as they flew across the battlefield. Amazing game.

I relax with CounterStrike and Day of Defeat, I get myself worked up with MAME.

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